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This image is reprinted from Wysocka et al. (2025; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14071003) under this license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and is not associated with the research discussed below.

Modern wheat classes converge in grain mineral nutrition—and that’s not great news

April 21, 2025

New Field, Lab, Earth podcast episode: Dr. Bijesh Maharjan joins us to discuss the steps in and importance of the soil health cycle.

New podcast episode: The soil health cycle

April 21, 2025

The Congressional Visits Day team poses in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Science meets policy at Congressional Visits Day

April 17, 2025

William A. Jury is the third recipient of the prestigious Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Gold Medal.

William Jury receives Kirkham Gold Medal honors

April 17, 2025

Teaching agriculture students how to spot and identify weeds

April 16, 2025

In a Natural Sciences Education study, students used a microcontroller called Arduino UNO to turn on a pair of lights in sequence. This image is the prototype used in developing ChatGPT-generated Arduino programs.

AI and agriculture—how undergrads are exploring new frontiers

April 16, 2025

Map of saturated hydraulic conductivity at a 5-cm depth for the contiguous United States. This map shows large-scale variation with high conductivities on coarse materials (orange-red, such as Florida, mountains, glacial sediments) and low conductivities on the fine sediments in the U.S. interior (blue). Actual map holds 49,810 × 31,390 pixels (West–East × North–South) at 100-m resolution. Image by Marcel G. Schapp, Yonggen Zhang, and Craig Rasmussen.

Soil hydraulic property mapping with AI and high-performance computing

April 16, 2025

Soybean growth, development, and subsequent yield can be impacted by soil quality. This photo highlights the fragile period after germination to help illustrate this relationship. Photo by Lindsay Chamberlain Malone.

Soybean yield is positively linked to organic matter, but planting date remains more influential

April 16, 2025

Panicles from field-grown rice germplasm CS272, one of the three lines developed in this study, in Arkansas. Photo by Heather Box.

Three new and improved long-grain rice germplasm lines

April 16, 2025

A drainage ditch leading from an industrial hog farm in southeastern North Carolina. Photo by Adam Chaffin.

Industrial animal agriculture causes widespread nutrient pollution in North Carolina

April 15, 2025

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